(9 Jun 2023)
LEBANON ISRAEL PROTEST
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
LENGTH: 2:18
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Kfar Chouba, Lebanon - 9 June 2023
1. Wide of Lebanese men throwing stones and then running away from tear gas
2. Wide of protesters and soldiers struggling with breathing in tear gas
3. Wide of people opening car trunk hit with tear gas canister
4. SOUNDBITE (Arabic) Hussein Ghassan Abd Aal, protester:
"This is our land, our property and our honor. We want it by force, by weapon force. By the power of our resistance, we want our land."
5, Various of Abd Aal and others pushing border fence, personnel of UN peacekeeping force (UNIFIL) on other side
6. Various of men throwing stones at border
7. Various of people pushing down border fence, tear gas in air
9. Protesters, Lebanese soldiers running away from tear gas
8. Various of UNIFIL, Israeli and Lebanese military at the border
10. Various of Lebanese army Humvee
STORYLINE:
Israeli soldiers fired tear gas to disperse scores of protesters who pelted the troops with stones along the border with Lebanon Friday, leaving some Lebanese demonstrators and troops suffering breathing problems.
The tension on the edge of the Lebanese border village of Kfar Chouba began earlier this week over the Israeli military digging in the area that Lebanon claims.
On Wednesday, a Lebanese villager tried to stop an Israeli bulldozer from digging a trench along the border.
Once the villager's legs were covered with sand as the bulldozer moved ahead, U.N. peacekeepers jumped in and convinced the driver to move back.
Videos of the elderly man with his legs stuck in the sand dune went viral on social media.
Israel ended an 18-year occupation of southern Lebanon when its troops withdrew from the area in May 2000.
Friday’s protest took place on the edge of Kfar Chouba hills, which Beirut says is Lebanese land occupied by Israel.
Kfar Chouba hills and the nearby Chebaa Farms, are areas captured by Israel during the 1967 Mideast War and claimed by Lebanon.
On Friday, some of the protesters tried to break through a fence in the rugged area overlooked by an Israeli military post.
Israeli forces fired tear gas to disperse them while Lebanese troops and U.N. peacekeepers later moved in and pushed the protesters back.
Israeli troops and several vehicles, including an Israeli Merkava tank, were seen in the area.
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